What is the crime rate in Kennebunk, ME?

In 2025, the Kennebunk Police Department reported 6 violent crimes and 71 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 49 violent and 584 property crimes per 100,000 of the 12,151 residents it serves.

Across Maine the rates were 95 and 961.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 49
Property per 100,000: 584
Violent crimes: 6
Property crimes: 71

Crime reported by the Kennebunk Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	7	59	48	405	11,863
2024	8	66	77	640	12,040
2025	6	49	71	584	12,151

Violent crimes reported went from 7 in 2023 to 6 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 48 in 2023 to 71 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Kennebunk against Maine and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Kennebunk	49	584
York County	95	877
Maine	95	961
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Kennebunk, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Kennebunk	—	49	584
Wells	6.2 mi	58	852
Kennebunkport	6.3 mi	54	376
Biddeford	9.0 mi	264	1,899
Ogunquit	10 mi	62	871
Sanford	11 mi	190	2,324
North Berwick	11 mi	56	281
Saco	12 mi	33	1,017
South Berwick	14 mi	51	379

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

The figures for Kennebunk include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Kennebunk (community), West Kennebunk.

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